Ernst August Album
The Ernst August Album is a lithographed plate book published in Hannover in 1862 by Klindworth's Verlag, drawn by Molthan and Degèle, and it appears to be made for a Hanoverian audience marking the memory of King Ernest Augustus. The plates show ornate ceremonial displays of banners, flags and draped fabric set within Gothic-revival architectural frames, with tracery, carved brackets, candelabra and heraldic shields. A designer could take from them the layered arrangement of hanging textiles, the detailed Gothic ornament and the symmetrical, centred compositions used for festival decoration.
